The death of “Miss You” singer Oliver Tree on Sunday (June 14) in a helicopter crash in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil was the latest in a distressingly long list of aviation accidents involving helicopters and small aircraft that have taken the lives of beloved artists, their band mates and prominent concert promoters.
From the Feb. 3, 1959 weather-related crash of a small plane near Clear Lake, Iowa that killed early rock icons Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson — commonly referred to as “the day the music died,” in honor of Don McLean’s 1971 song “American Pie” — to…
